Risk perception on logistics outsourcing of retail chains: Model development and empirical verification in Taiwan

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 415-424

  Tsai, Ming Chih ^a   Liao, Chun Hua ^a   Han, Chia Shing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Distribution management; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349120507     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540810905679     Document Type: Article

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